Verge

End of the F*cking World meets Midsommar with touches of Lanny in Nadia Attia’s debut novel, a folk-horror tinged road-trip that will take you to places not marked on any map… Everyone Rowena Murray loves dies. If she’s to have any chance of breaking this curse she must make the long journey north to her grandmother, a renowned healer. Yet the once-United Kingdom is a divided nation where county borders are as hard as the people within them, and all the signs tell her that Death is close. Halim Hosny is lost. Torn between the city life his parents expect him to lead and the freedom of the road, he’s struggling to make his own way, on his own terms. He’ll take any well-paid job – even if it means transporting a girl with a curse on her back across a Kingdom on the brink of a new Dark Age. Will they survive this superstitious and broken world? Verge is about the power of belief, and about finding your own path – letting go of the restrictions placed upon us and the restrictions we place on ourselves.